Posted on 12/10/2018 8:15:59 AM PST by Olog-hai
Ke’Shon Newman’s daily routine is guided by guns — the hundreds of illegal pistols, revolvers and other firearms that torment his South Side neighborhood. […]
The Auburn Gresham neighborhood is flooded with illegal guns: .40-caliber pistols, .380 semi-automatics, .38-caliber revolvers. Police recover as many as they can, searching apartments, stopping cars, cornering people on the street. A buy-back in June brought in hundreds of firearms. And in September, the mayor and other dignitaries gathered to mark a milestone: Police in the 6th District had recovered their 1,000th gun this year. […]
Chicago’s gun violence has captured the national spotlight in recent years and President Donald Trump has, at various times, blamed the Democratic leadership, threatened to send in federal troops and breezily called the problem “very easily fixable.”
Those who battle this daily in the 6th District see it much differently. Guns not only shatter families, they determine what time people leave their houses, the streets and stores they avoid, whether a church should have a metal detector, even whether a Ferris wheel operator feels it’s safe enough to install a ride for a festival. …
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The hardest time of year is when these guns migrate back north to bred..../s
Like somehow, people are not the problem...
“illegal guns”
Gee, does this mean guns laws might not work? /s
Illegal guns? They snuck in over Chicago’s border?
A clear indication that it’s past time for Chiraq to put some strict infringements on firear.............. Oh!
Endless supply of criminals sounds like.
I know! Let's disarm the law abiding, that will solve the problem!
“Guns not only shatter families, they determine what time people leave their houses, the streets and stores they avoid, whether a church should have a metal detector, even whether a Ferris wheel operator feels it’s safe enough to install a ride for a festival” An inanimate object could do all of that? Imagine what these people’s toasters do to them!
They should put up a wall around the South Side to stop these undocumented guns from migrating.
Illegal guns? How about Chicago’s feral population?
How can this woman seriously call herself a “reporter?” EVERY “source” in this article, from the cure guy to crying Pfleger, is a political operative dressed up as a concerned citizen.
Illegal? Don’t they mean undocumented?
I don't care who you are, that's funny, right there.
They keep focusing on the tools rather than those who use them. If they keep doing this they will never put a dent in the problem.
Also; when people feel threatened it’s natural to want to defend yourself so getting the proper tools to do that, illegal or not, is a priority.
The problem is the gangs in Chicago. Everyone has known this since the mob days. Deal with the gangs and the gun homicides will go down drastically.
Nature abhors a vacuum. Maybe they should consider that all the buybacks are keeping the demand for more guns high. Just a thought.
Duh
Chi town
Gun control central
That really works doesn’t it kids ?
There oughta be a law against these illegal guns. /s
That’s one of the implications. Of course, they want a border-free world at the same time, so furthermore all guns must be banned everywhere (but not for the government evidently).
“hundreds of illegal pistols, revolvers and other firearms ... torment his South Side neighborhood”
Those naughty guns! They should stay inside and stop bothering people trying to go about their day. Haven’t they got anything better to do? Tormenting people. Tsk tsk tsk.
When I lived in Fargo, ND, EVERYONE had guns, including the few liberals.
The plethora of guns didn’t “torment” anyone.
Maybe Chicago needs more polite guns, like Fargo’s.
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